The crew of this train, had to be feeling a bit snake bit. First they reported PTC issue at Smelter. Then the reason I got this shot, a detector reported an integrity failure, forcing them to slow... (more)

UP 5539, 6653 and two more DPU's, are hauling the Valmy coal train, across the Shafter subdivision. They are heading across the Western Pacific causeway, on the Great Salt Lake. Not alot of lake t... (more)

I saw Valmy coal train rolling through Grant Tower, on the way home from work, and the chase was on. First up LM Bryan. The coal dust is a flying.

A parade of stacked containers temporarily interrupt the quiet repose of a summer afternoon in the rural community of Echo, Utah.

Westbound tonnage drops downgrade past the old SP location of El Casco in San Timoteo Canyon.

UP 5539 leads this westbound as it drops into San Timoteo Canyon in the late evening.

Late in the evening a Westbound manifest freight drops down through San Timoteo Canyon near El Casco as it heads for West Colton.

A heavy Westbound manifest struggles up the east slope of Beaumont Pass at the former Southern Pacific location of Mons, which in the SP days was home to a set of CTC crossovers protected by class... (more)

UP 5539 and 4701 are the DPU's cut in 83 cars back on this 164 car train.

Eastbound stacks climbing Beaumont Hill, on UP's Sunset Route.

A high priority piggyback train descends Utah's Echo Canyon grade with 85 trailers for the California bay area.